CUSTOMTOOLS installer lets you to install CUSTOMTOOLS as a Trial version or as a Custom installation. If you already have a valid CUSTOMTOOLS license, select the Custom installation.
NOTE: CUSTOMTOOLS have to be installed separately for the each workstation. |
Trial |
Select this one to install CUSTOMTOOLS trial version. The trial version installs all CUSTOMTOOLS products needed for the basic CUSTOMTOOLS workstation and the Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express with a database called CUSTOMTOOLS Demo that you can use to store the reference data of the SOLIDWORKS documents to. Trial installation is a good choise for the evaluation purposes.
NOTE: If you already have the SQL Server installed, the new instance of the SQL Server will not be installed. Then, only the SQL Server database for CUSTOMTOOLS is installed. |
Custom | Select this one to manually select the components of CUSTOMTOOLS to be installed. This installation type is recommended if you already have purchased a CUSTOMTOOLS license or if you do not need to evaluate products. Select this installation type also if you have a database server separated from the SolidWorks workstations. |
TIP: Recommended components for the License Server installations are Server Side Components with a License Manager service. |